Cahir Park — Bridge Street

Detached irregular-plan single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1861, comprising L-plan block having triangular-plan west end wall, slightly lower porch in second pile to angle and lean-to projection to south. Pitched roofs to north and hipped to east and west, with slate covering having decorative fish-scale upper courses, decorative cresting to ridges with ornate metal finial to west hip, carved stone copings with carved stone finial details over gables and ashlar limestone chimneystack with carved stone string course and coping. Square-profile cast-iron rainwater goods with ornate hopper heads having lozenge detailing and decorative wall brackets, with carved sandstone lion's head spout to north elevation. Coursed cut yellow and grey sandstone walls with snecking stones, cut limestone quoins, plinth and impost course and purple sandstone band at sill level. Corbel course to eaves. Pointed segmental-arched openings with chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds. Timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows. Square-headed timber panelled entrance door in deeply recessed pointed segmental arched porch with tiled pavement and stone step. Snecked stone boundary wall with cut limestone copings to top and to plinth and cut limestone piers with plinths, carving to caps and decorative wrought-iron gate.